High School Student Donates Condor Puppet
Posted at 4:57 pm March 28, 2008 by site adminA San Diego County high school student hand made and donated a condor puppet to the San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park California condor program for use in the hand rearing of chicks.
Un estudiante en una preparatoria en el condado de San Diego fabricó un tÃtere hecho como un cóndor y lo donó al programa de recuperación en el San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park.
Windows Media English Version
Windows Media Espanol
Quicktime English Version
Quicktime Espanol
Kathleen Ferris, a 10th grade student in Vista, Calif., personally delivered a California condor puppet she hand made to Don Sterner, animal care manager in charge of the California condor program at the San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park. Puppets like the one Kathleen created are used by condor keepers to feed, clean, and care for California condor chicks that are hand raised for reintroduction into their native habitat in Baja California, Mexico. Thanks to the efforts of the California Condor Recovery Program, there are more than 140 condors flying in the skies of California, Arizona and Mexico and approximately 150 condors in the four breeding centers including the Wild Animal Park.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Scroll to the end to leave a comment. Pinging is not allowed.
April 18th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
It is fantastic to see a young person doing her part for conservation. I hope more youth are getting involved. They are after all the ones who will save our planet. Great job Kathleen!